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Only by removing Nigel Farage and his sycophants on the NEC can we save UKIP from electoral oblivion.
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Monday, 5 January 2015

Well, we all know that Bill Etheridge is a complete waste, not only of taxpayer's money, but also of perfectly good oxygen. But given the increasing burden of the EU institutions on the taxpayer, could he not have done a bit to help and at least turn off the bloody neon sign in his office window in the European Parliament?

Yes, it is sad but true. Etheridge has a neon sign proclaiming his own name in the window of his Brussels office, and it blazed away, wasting electricity, throughout the Parliament's two week break.

Friday, 21 November 2014

From: Greg Lance-Watkins (Greg_L-W)At: Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com

"The
practice of sport is a human right!. Every individual must have the
possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and
in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit
of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter

There are times when it is reasonable to believe ‘Sport’ is not so much a right but an obligation by diktat!However
boring you may find sport: there are many who derive great vicarious
pleasure from watching it – Particularly Women’s Beach Volleyball &
Women’s Gymnastics; some even enjoy being a part of a baying mob at
football games!

Sorry
about the service outage. Some Vietnamese chaps were trying to hijack
the site to sell you discount Ugg boots but I thwarted them eventually.
Personally, I wasn't aware our reader demographic was into that kind of
thing. But thanks to the ministrations of Winserve.co.uk, we're back.

Meanwhile, being a complete bastard, I've been busy over on my blog.
We have maintained for sometime that the rump of the Ukip vote is in
the bag come an EU referendum. In order to win it, we need to start
cultivating a new breed of eurosceptic with bigger ideas and give them
more positive reasons to leave the EU.

Here at Eureferendum
we've charted everything that's wrong with the EU and we've been
informing the debate for a decade, but we're preaching only to the
converted. Now is the time to start fighting to win. This isn't about
tribal supremacy or the success of Ukip. This is about selling an idea
bigger than the EU. Flexcit is a start but Harrogate Agenda is the ultimate destination. We can't afford to waste time with the Mr Angry Party.

You
can follow us on Twitter at @eureferendum. Retweet us, share us, work
with us. Let's show the world you don't have to be a little Englander
miserablist to want bigger and better for Great Britain.

Sorry
about the service outage. Some Vietnamese chaps were trying to hijack
the site to sell you discount Ugg boots but I thwarted them eventually.
Personally, I wasn't aware our reader demographic was into that kind of
thing. But thanks to the ministrations of Winserve.co.uk, we're back.

Meanwhile, being a complete bastard, I've been busy over on my blog.
We have maintained for sometime that the rump of the Ukip vote is in
the bag come an EU referendum. In order to win it, we need to start
cultivating a new breed of eurosceptic with bigger ideas and give them
more positive reasons to leave the EU.

Here at Eureferendum
we've charted everything that's wrong with the EU and we've been
informing the debate for a decade, but we're preaching only to the
converted. Now is the time to start fighting to win. This isn't about
tribal supremacy or the success of Ukip. This is about selling an idea
bigger than the EU. Flexcit is a start but Harrogate Agenda is the ultimate destination. We can't afford to waste time with the Mr Angry Party.

You
can follow us on Twitter at @eureferendum. Retweet us, share us, work
with us. Let's show the world you don't have to be a little Englander
miserablist to want bigger and better for Great Britain.

From: Greg Lance-Watkins (Greg_L-W)At: Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com

"The
practice of sport is a human right!. Every individual must have the
possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and
in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit
of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter

There are times when it is reasonable to believe ‘Sport’ is not so much a right but an obligation by diktat!However
boring you may find sport: there are many who derive great vicarious
pleasure from watching it – Particularly Women’s Beach Volleyball &
Women’s Gymnastics; some even enjoy being a part of a baying mob at
football games!

I
think the political quote of the week comes from the anonymous pundit
who reported of Rochester and Strood: "Labour suffer crushing defeat by
losing safe Conservative seat to Ukip". But he only just caps Mr
Eugenides, who tweets:
"Stupid woman tweets photo of white van and flags, resigns. Stupid man
calls for compulsory repatriation of legal EU residents, is elected".

Turnout is reported at 50.67 percent, against 51.13 percent at Clacton.
Reckless thus came in with 16,867 votes, representing 22.5 percent of
the electorate - one in five of the voting public. This is significantly
down on Clacton where Carswell took 30.5 percent of the popular vote.
We are seeing yet another failure of the Angry Party to set the
election on fire.

That Ukip was going to win, though, has not been in doubt for some time, which means "death camp" Reckless the Repatriater is briefly returned as MP - albeit the indications are that the margin will not be as great as some expect.

His tenure will perhaps last only until the general election. But his move to Ukip will bring no tears from Peter Oborne. He
describes the Repatriater as "a brutish and low-grade specimen who
ought not have been permitted to stand in the Conservative interest".
His defection to Ukip nearly two months ago, Oborne adds, "reflected
well on David Cameron's Conservative Party, making it a better place".

Interestingly, Reckless will be addressing the Bruges Group annual
conference in London on Saturday. He was invited while he was still a
Conservative MP and, if he turns up, will be able to put his views on
his change of heart to a discerning audience.

By coincidence,
this will be followed on the Monday by Owen Paterson, who is planning a
major speech on the EU. Oborne expects Mr Paterson "to develop the
argument that Britain's future lies outside Europe", and that may well
be the case.

If Mr Paterson goes further and outlines details
of how we should go about leaving the EU, he will be ramping up the
pressure on UKIP which, after 20 years of existence, is still unable to
deliver a coherent (or any) EU exit plan.

And, trailing in the wake of the Guardian, which led the fray in noting the great UKIP policy vacuum, we now see the Telegraph
picking up the same thread. "The party can no longer get away with
simply behaving like the outsiders of British politics", the paper says,
"free to dish out criticism but outraged when it is directed towards
them". It adds: "Over the next few months, their policies on every issue
should be subjected to the closest possible scrutiny".

This is
an interesting observation. We have been known to remark the Ukip
supporters, uniquely, seem to believe that their party should be immune
from criticism. Now, the Telegraph lends its way to a counter view.

Meanwhile, we are being regaled
with rumours of additional Conservative MPs deserting to the
policy-free UKIP, maybe attracted by the relief of not having to
remember what your party's policies actually are.

However, we
are now past the six month cut-off, which means there will be no more
by-elections this side of the general. Any MPs who do jump ship and
follow the Carswell-Reckless model in resigning their seats are likely
to be out in the cold until May – or even longer – reduced to burning
their rosettes.

At least, now, we are spared the sight of
prancing politicians and prattling pundits giving us the benefit of
their ignorance. Instead, we can revel in Mr Kelner's claim
that other parties haven't a clue how to beat Ukip – until Monday, that
is, when we may get an illustration of how policy trumps vacuum.

From: Greg Lance-Watkins (Greg_L-W)At: Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com

"The
practice of sport is a human right!. Every individual must have the
possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and
in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit
of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter

There are times when it is reasonable to believe ‘Sport’ is not so much a right but an obligation by diktat!However
boring you may find sport: there are many who derive great vicarious
pleasure from watching it – Particularly Women’s Beach Volleyball &
Women’s Gymnastics; some even enjoy being a part of a baying mob at
football games!

Hi,

ANNOUNCEMENT:

For
nearly 24 hours, the EU Referendum domain has come under massive denial
of service (DOS) attack, from servers bearing Chinese IP addresses. All
the action we can take is being taken, but there are limits to what can
be done to deal with what is a deliberate, malicious attack, directed
specifically at EU Ref.

We hope to be up and running soon, but in the meantime please bear with us.

Monday, 3 November 2014

The guns appear to be out for Farage and his band of nihlists. Yesterday's article in the Mail on Sunday ´Fascists, Felons, and Fanatical Fools' was unusually well researched, ´albeit somewhat overdue, and will have struck a raw nerve. We were very pleased to note that some of the content was lifted from this blog.

We were also delighted to note certain snippets that could only have come from the inside. There are moves afoot to knock staffer Aurelie Laloux from her perch, and we may have just witnessed the opening shots in that civil war.

Farage may or may not have been upset by scathing remarks made about him by one of his group's Italian MEPs. Eleonora Bechis does not hold Nigel Farage in high regard. She calls him ‘a misogynist, homophobe and xenophobe,’ adding that he thinks ‘like a financial speculator’ who has adopted the ideas of the far-Right. ‘His only gift is that he is a great speaker, full of hot air.’ He may, however, be upset by what happens next......

Monday, 29 September 2014

GUEST POST

The wife of Nigel Farage yesterday barred The Telegraphfrom a Ukip fringe meeting instructing MEPs how to secure taxpayer-funded holidays for their friends and supporters.

Kirsten Farage asked this newspaper to leave a fringe meeting outlining an EU scheme that subsidises holidays for political activists to Brussels and Strasbourg.

The European Union spends £25 million on the subsidies for tours arranged through Euro-MPs' offices.

Under the scheme, holiday makers are handed a subsidy of up to £200 in cash if they include a short visit to the European Parliamentary in their itinerary. That money can then be used to pay for hotel rooms, meals and transport.

Ukip's use of the scheme comes despite Mr Farage's party being ostensibly opposed to wasteful spending in Brussels.

Mrs Farage helped organise the briefing for the party's new MEPs, which was held in a suite overlooking the track at Doncaster Racecourse at the party's conference.
"Oh dear," she said as TheTelegraph arrived at the event, which had been advertised in the conference schedule handed to delegates. "We didn't really want the press."
"I'd much rather not have any press here. It's an internal event.
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to send you away." She said the meeting was to instruct new MEPs of the "logistics" of booking trips.
Asked about the scheme, she said: "Every MEP is allowed to take visitors' groups over from their constituency or region, or councillors, or business groups they are supporting, or supporting them. It's an EU scheme."

She added: "It's a nice thing to do."

One five-day package advertised on a stand at Ukip conference, organised by a private tour operator, included a visit to the castles of Koblenz, a tour of Strasbourg Cathedral and a boat trip along the Rhine. The visit to the Parliament in Strasbourg lasts two and a half hours. After the EU subsidy, the holiday costs £389 a head.
Another seven-day Ukip tour takes in Verona, Lake Garda, an excursion to Venice and a tour of Vicenza, known as the City of Gold, before driving on to Strasbourg for a short visit to the Parliament.
Other taxpayer-subsidised tours incorporate visits to the tapestry at Bayeux and Monet's garden in Giverny before visiting the European Parliament in Brussels.